The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-07-28
EVERYWHERE.

EVERYWHERE.
There is a tax of 1922 on spool
cotton.
Big fire at Bessemer, Ala. Loss
$4,000. =
Part of France is being shaken by
earthquakes.
Mormon elders are causing trouble
in Georgia.
The Ohio Republican convention
meets to-day.
Chicago has gone to work on the
boodlers in earnest.
Hon. John S. Barbour, of Virginia,
is for Cleveland.
The Kaiser William, of Germany,
is a physical wreck.
The cotton crop in Egypt is being
destroyed by worms.
The Grant monument fund has
only reached $6,128.17.
The new man o'war, Atlanta is to
be thoroughly tested at sea.
The President has not yet decided
whether he will go West or not.
The total production of coffee in
the world is estimated at 600, 900 tons.
Mrs. George E. Pickett is a tall,
slender, stately woman of middle age.
The price of tobacco is steadily ris-
ing, owing to the shortness Of the
crop.
Kansas City has invited President
Cleveland to make a visit to that
city.
Harriet Beecher Stowe says she
will write no more. Her health is
broken
The losses by the coke strike, just
ended in Pennsylvania, foot up 81 900
900.
The Salvation Army was pelted
with cloud eggs at Atlanta. STAN
pede.
Figs measuring nine and a half
inches in circumference are grown in
Florida.
Col. J. M. Smith is the Georgia
farmer king. He has farm rated at
800, 900.
Miss Jennie Lamar married her
cousin, w. II. Lamar, at Macon, Ga,
July 81.
The latest sensation in Germany is
the discovery of plot to assassinate
Emperor William.
Henry M. Stanley, the famous trav-
eler and explorer is reported killed
in Central Africa.
| Secretary Lamar is Jersey cattle
fancier, and has small herd at his
home in Oxford, Miss.
Charleston, S. c., reports Is deaths
from heat the past week. The hot
wave still continues there.
| Mr.. Powderly, Master Workman
of the Knights of Labor says he is not
going to resign in October.
| At Washington they are talking Of
a cable to connect the United States
with the Hawaiian Islands.
Harvey, the swindling Treasury
clerk was convicted and sentenced te
~ years in Albany penitentiary.
Gen. E. P. Alexander says the ru
mors about the Georgia Central Rail.
road being for sale are unfounded.
Allen G. Thurman was in New
York recently and said II will new
er run for political Office again"
According to the Signal Office re-
ports, Augusta, Ga, was its hottest
station, with the thermometer at 1929
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the "Passior
,, Poetess," will soon move back to hel
Wisconsin home. She dislikes the
East.
, Hon. BENZ. Woods, the venerable
: editor of the New York Neaus says
, that Mr.. Cleveland will be easily re
: elected.
, The indications now are that til,
Sherman boom has been "palsied,
, and that Mr.. Blaine will be the Re
publican nominee.
Mr.. w. H. Lamar and bride vii
be the guests of Gov. Gordon for
: few days. They will make Washing
ton their home.
A great naval review took place a
, Portsmouth, England, July 23d. 9Th
t American Ministers, Phelps and Nc
: Lane were present.
The business men of Buffalo hav
organized company to pay $4,000
= for the best invention to utilize tn
0 power of Niagara Falls.
T The report that Mr.. Blaine ha
. persuaded Mr.. Gladstone to visit til
: United States next autumn is denie
. upon the highest authority.
e $161 100000 have been invested i
= new enterprises in the South, in th
:, first six months of 1887, against $63
IS 000,0 900 for like period of-last year
Mr.. John Wall, of the New Yor
!, Tribune has been presented with
! check for 81 900 by his disclaimer
: can friends in recognition of his SCI
!, vices to the cause.
e Gen. Jas. III. Lane, who command
2 ed the North Carolina troops at &c
+ tysburg, thinks that in all the blow
) ing, the Tarheels ought to be men
,e toned occasionally for the part the
A took in the memorable contest.